Living Set Apart | Community in Christ | Part 1 of 3

Living Proof with Beth Moore

Beth Moore

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

What does it really mean to live in community, and how do we do it well in a divided world? Beth opens this series in Colossians 4 by addressing the deep ache we all carry: the need to belong. In a culture fractured by insider/outsider thinking, religious extremism, and harmful fundamentalism, the message of Christ offers something radically different.

Being a Jesus follower isn’t about fitting someone else's standard, it's about faith in Him.

Whether in family, church, or society, we must resist the urge to exclude and instead live from the truth that in Christ, there is no "them", only us.

"To say, 'you do not belong,' is injurious to the soul." - Beth Moore

Key Scriptures: Colossians 4:2–18; Colossians 3:9-11

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0:00.0	Okay, I want to tell you a little something before we get into the scriptures together.
0:07.4	What I can tell you is go ahead and turn with me.
0:10.0	I'm smiling because I love these passages so much to Colossians chapter four.
0:14.5	Colossians chapter four, you and I are going to be studying probably multiple times reading
0:19.3	the final chapter of Colossians.
0:21.9	So you're going into one of the prison epistles.
0:24.2	It will be the last of those four that starts with Galatians and Ephesians and Philippians
0:31.1	and Colossians.
0:32.8	So if you get to Thessalonians, if you get to Hebrews, you've gone too far.
0:36.9	But we're going to start
0:37.7	at that second verse and go to the end of that chapter in just a moment. Now, here is the
0:43.4	agreement that I need to make with you. So, tonight's lesson is going to invite us into making
0:51.4	applications in a community context,
0:56.0	whether that community is our social community,
1:02.3	our city and civic community, our school, our church, our family, our neighborhood,
1:10.8	whatever it may be, it's going to be dealing with one
1:14.2	another from a community point of view. Now, if you'll stick with it, because at times we have to
1:20.1	pour the foundation and then build on the foundation and think, how do we operate in community?
1:28.3	Because would you all agree that we're making overall an F?
1:34.3	Anybody?
1:35.3	We're struggling, aren't we?
1:37.3	We're struggling with community dynamics.
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